Cannabinoid Containing Cannabis Extract Infused into Rolling Paper

Abstract

A rolling paper is formed according to a modified conventional paper-making process. The end product is infused with cannabinoids from an oil extract from the cannabis plant. Since paper-making is highly water intensive and the cannabinoid containing cannabis extract is an oil that is ordinarily immiscible in the water, an emulsifier is used to allow the cannabinoids to evenly disperse in the making of the paper. The addition of the cannabinoids and the emulsifier is done prior to the drying of the paper. Preferably, the emulsifier and cannabinoids are added during the sizing step of the paper-making. Preferably the emulsifier is a starch-like carbohydrate, a modified starch, more preferably hydroxy-propyl-methyl-cellulose. The cannabinoid containing cannabis extract can be added at the pulping, web-forming step and/or preferably at the sizing step of paper-making.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to the manufacture and end product of rolling paper used for creating a cigarette, whether surrounding tobacco leaves, grounds, seeds of tobacco or that of the flowering plant known as cannabis. More specifically, the present invention relates to manufacturing rolling paper infused with the active ingredient of cannabis, cannabinoids, some of which are known to have psychoactive properties. Often delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol of cannabis is drawn or pressed from the cannabis plant and it is often generically referred to as a cannabinoid. It seems desirable to provide rolling paper for forming into a cigarette shape with a precise, controlled, uniform and dispersed quantity of the cannabinoid containing concentrate. Thus, the present invention relates to a method and the end product for incorporating cannabinoids as an infused component for paper, primarily intended for use as rolling paper for creating new cigarettes of c...

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Benefits of technology

[0042]As mentioned, cannabinoid containing cannabis extract is an oil and as an oil it is hydrophobic, i.e., does not mix with water molecules. The paper making process is, in general, a user of large quantities of water. Thus, mixing, in a uniform manner, the cannabinoid containing cannabis extract oil with the water used in the paper-making process is inherently in conflict. The present invention uses. At the sizing stage of paper-making, an emulsifier for surrounding the cannabinoid molecules which then allow the same to be easily and substantially uniformly dispersed in the water among the carbohydrates, the components of the cellulose which form the bulk of the paper, the end product. The surrounding of the cannabinoid with a starch, modified starch, preferably hydroxy-propyl-methyl-cellulose, an effective emulsifier allows the cannabinoids to be surrounded, and the same is thus infused into the sizing agent. In effect, the carbohydrates are allowing the cannabinoid to become miscible or soluble in the sizing agent. The cannabinoid is thus emulsified by the starch/modified carbohydrate, preferably hydroxy-propyl-methyl-cellulose.

[0043]The use of the emulsifier with the cannabinoid containing cannabis extract in the paper-making process is quite stable at room and temperature and for a period of time, namely, days. At any time during its shelf life, the emulsion can be sprayed onto the sizing components i.e., generally rollers passing through baths or the paper is passed through a bath of sizing components and this leads to cannabinoid infusion into the sizing mechanism with uniform content and concentration. The infusion leads to uniformity on the paper in comparison to prior art methods where the cannabinoids would otherwise be dropped onto or brushed onto the dried paper, after the paper-making proc

Problems solved by technology

Yet, as of now, there is no large scale manufacturer of cigarettes made from either tobacco or cannabis leaves whereby the paper used to surround the crushed tobacco or cannabis and leaf particles are provided with cannabinoids, the active ingredient of cannabis.

This results in an oily composition of cannabinoids, separated from the remaining physical components of the cannabis plants, stems and seeds.

That however should easily be understood to provide a lack of concentration consistency, lack of content uniformity, and an inconsistent concentration of the cannabinoids onto one or more cigarettes.

Cannabis extracts do not readily mix with water and therefore are not uniformly dispersed throughout the water matrix when added to water in a container or as an additive to a water using process but, rather, the oil will tend to stay with other oil molecules, separate from the water molecules.

However, to the Applicant's knowledge, it has not been thought of to use an emulsifier in the water-intensiv

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